Intertrust Technologies Corporation

Intertrust Technologies Corporation
Industry Computer software
Founder Victor Shear
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, United States
Key people
 Talal Shamoon, CEO
Website www.intertrust.com

Intertrust Technologies Corporation is an international holding company engaging in technology development, a strategic investor in several startup companies as well as running services associated with trusted computing. Intertrust has developed several brands in the realm of digital trust, data privacy, internet security, and content protection. Much of Intertrust's DRM related work is based on the open standard Marlin DRM, which Intertrust founded along with four consumer electronics companies: Sony, Panasonic, Philips, and Samsung. Intertrust's technologies include Seacert, whiteCryption, ExpressPlay, Personagraph, Genecloud, and Kabuto.

Intertrust invents, develops, and licenses software, technologies and intellectual property for digital rights management (DRM) and trusted computing (TC). The company holds over 150 patents and has over 300 patent applications pending worldwide. Intertrust's inventions enable many products that use DRM and trusted computing technologies, including operating systems, digital media platforms, consumer electronics and mobile computing devices, web services, and secure enterprise automation. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Seacert, Intertrust provides trust management services for the Marlin and OMA DRM standards. Intertrust provides Marlin DRM server and client SDKs to support servers or clients. Supported clients include set-top boxes, Internet TV's, personal computers, mobile phones, and other service-enabled devices. Intertrust is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has regional offices in London and Beijing.

Intertrust was founded in 1990 by inventor-entrepreneur Victor Shear. Shear's vision was to revolutionize electronic commerce by creating technologies that allowed independent actors to establish trust between each other when using digital networks and devices. Shear, a sociologist by training, brought concepts from human behavior, community construction, commerce and economics to life in the digital world in a unique and innovative way. The concepts that Intertrust has developed over the years cross disciplines and impact everything requiring trusted transactions, from healthcare, enterprise computing to entertainment and consumer electronics.

The company has experienced many transformations over the past twenty years; it began as a quiet research lab under the name Electronic Publishing Resources in 1990, and became a public company providing neutral root of trust services from 1999-2003 (NASDAQ:ITRU), and developed into a private joint venture of Philips, Sony and Stephens Inc. in early 2003. Today, Intertrust is a research and development company focused on invention, licensing, standardization and reference technologies, focused on applications of its technologies to entertainment, healthcare, enterprise computing and smartgrid energy. As of February 2015, Intertrust's CEO is Talal Shamoon. In October 2014, the computer scientist Robert Tarjan, a recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery A. M. Turing Award, rejoined the company as Chief Scientist.

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